Witty Patters for Humor vs Witty Patterns for Detail A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme[4]Ben Jonson
"A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme" by Ben Jonson is loaded with patterns and irony. Firstly, the entire poem rhymes with the scheme AABCCBEE in lines such as "Not a work deserving bays, / Not a line deserving praise." This line like many others also features a second pattern: alliteration. Often lines paired together contain one or two repeated words. The third pattern is alliteration, the repetition of consonant sounds. Alliteration can be found with phrases such as "Fear of falling," "Wresting words," and "Spoiling senses." All these patterns are not only intentional, but are also clever. They are clever because of the irony they create. All the rhyming lines of the poem together denigrate rhyming poems. Just like Jonson argues in his poem, writing a rhyming poem that still conveys a message is difficult. Not only does he conquer rhyme, Jonson simultaneously conquers humor, cleverly crafting his entire poem as one big irony. Even the title is ironic, "A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme." In other words, the poem is appropriately rhyming in order declare rhyme inappropriate. The poem's irony makes it clever. Actually explain WHY the rhyme/alliteration is clever. Don't tell me that it is--but why. Explain the wit of the title of the poem. You tell me it is witty--but don't explain the wit/irony.
“Her Face” by Arthur Gorges is an extremely clever and unique poem that is more like a collection of several poems. At first glance, its unusual verse styling appears to be a huge formatting error. Though after reading the poem, its true ingenuity is revealed. Patterns cover the poem. Firstly, each verse row describes a facial feature and every other verse row describes the same set of features. When reading down each verse column, each verse alternates in describes two facial features. Within each verse, lines end in alternating sounds following the pattern ABAB. Every line and verse of the poem has exactly 6 words and six syllables, and every other word is identical. Line two is a perfect example, chanting “so fair so sweet so sharp.” Not only does this line continue to follow the every other word pattern, but the words work together to describe both her and her face. Her face is “so fair”, her tongue is “so sweet”, and her wit is “so sharp”. Together the descriptions describe her as fair, sweet, and sharp. Patterns like this are all over the poem. A poem like this requires incredible intentionality in selecting every word, and requires immense witty cleverness to craft. Much better job describing the poem here, McKay.
Both Jonson and Gorges are witty people, and therefore write witty poetry. However, the two poets use their wit for differing purposes. Jonson uses clever rhyme patterns to invoke irony and humor into his poem. "A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme" keeps readers entertained through its humorous irony. Gorges, on the other hand, uses his clever patterns to inscribe incredible detail into a few short words. Lines such as "to like to learn to love" use only six words to describe her eyes, her ears, her heart, and her as a whole. His cleverly thought out patterns create concise details. While the poets use witty patterns for differing purposes, both poets' patterns add to the quality of their poems. Why do they use wit in their poems? What is the intention of the wit?
Wit of Villains vs Wit of Heroes
The Italian Job[7] Contrary to usual action movies, the protagonists in The Italian Job are lawbreaking, organized criminals, led by John Bridger. The film starts off with John talking to his daughter after leaving his most recent prison sentence. During their conversation, it is indicated that John is notorious for his effectively clever crimes that are meticulously planned out and usually involve him skillfully cracking a safe with no technology. The scene immediately following their conversation demonstrates his clever perfection. His team wants to rob a safe on the third floor of a Venice building. They do so by bombing perfectly shaped holes in the two floors directly below the safe, causing it to fall into the water garage below the building. Next, two members of the team rocket out of the water garage by speedboat, carrying the stolen safe which had fallen into the back of their boat. This safe, however, is a decoy. John cleverly designed the plan so that the safe falls underwater in front of the boat where he is waiting in scuba gear to crack it. The plan works perfectly and the antagonists proceed to pursue the decoy safe in an intense high speed boat chase through the narrow canals of Venice. While John’s sharp wit is admirable, he uses his wit for not-so-admirable, selfish purposes. John is a perfect example of how even villainous criminals can be based on intelligent wit. Make sure to write titles correctly.
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Speed[6] Speed is a thriller action movie about an ingenious psychopath, Howard Payne, who places a bomb on the underside of a bus that has been triggered to explode if the bus travels slower than 50 miles per hour. Payne can also trigger the bus to explode if any passenger attempt to exit. Within minutes police are aware of the situation and after about an hour of suspenseful driving stunts, the bus manages to arrive at the airport where the police have it circle the runway at just over 50 mph. The entire nation is watching this bus circle, praying that it will not explode. The main protagonist Jack Traven has less than an hour to figure out how he can safely get all the passengers of the bus before it runs out of fuel. Finally, one discovery helps Traven tremendously. He realizes that not only is Payne watching the bus on the news, but he has a security camera watching the inside of the bus. Traven uses his quick wit and fabricates and ingenious plan. The police order all the news sources to turn off cameras and has one news van locate the signal of Payne’s bus camera. Once the signal is found, Traven tells the news van to record a minute and a half of activity inside the bus, then broadcast the recording on a loop so it appears nothing suspicious is happening. Immediately following the start of the loop, the police drive an airport bus parallel to the runaway bus and evacuate the passengers safely. The plan is executed flawlessly and all passengers escape without injury. Traven uses his intelligence and quick wit to save many lives in a high pressure situation. He is perfect example of how wit can be the basis for heroism. Write film titles correctly.
Bridger and Traven both use cleverness to their advantage. John outwits his opponents with deceiving and unexpected tactics in his robberies, allowing them to be notoriously successful. Traven outwits clever criminals with ingeniousness of his own, foiling the villains' plot and saving lives. These two witty men, however, have polar motives. Bridger has selfish motives, using cleverness to cheat his way through life, benefiting off stealing what does not belong to him, like a villian. Traven, on the other hand, uses his cleverness to outsmart villains and save lives, like a hero. Together they demonstrate how wit can be the basis of both evil and virtue.
Wit of Mastering the Mind vs Wit of Mastering the World
Genghis Khan[2] Genghis Khan is the most successful military commander in history. His Mongol forces conquered more land than any other army, thereby making him emperor of the largest empire ever. Khan used brilliant tactics for his time to conquer East Europe, Asia, and the Middle East one city at a time. Before a Mongol legion even began to attack a city, spies spent months gathering insight on supply routes, roads, defences, and strategic positions. This allowed warriors to invade cities with knowledge of the terrain equal to the defenders. Mongolia's enemies also had to witness the brutal effectiveness of Khan’s sieges. His forces would encircle a city cutting off its supply routes, thereby starving the defenders into submission. On especially resilient cities, Khan would unleash the surging power of water, breaking a dam of a nearby river to flood a city. His cleverness could be witnessed off the battlefield as well. In addition to rapid communication networks, Khan’s Mongols would light extra campfires around the perimeter of their encampments. These extra fires made their legion appear much larger than it actually was, discouraging enemy night raids and counter-offensives. Khan is considered to be one of the greatest military commanders of all time. He mastered the world around him through his sharp wit. I like this examples. It's well explained and I like the attached graphic.
The Death of Socrates[1][5] Socrates is one of the world’s most renowned philosophers. Born in 469 BC Athens, he spent his days contemplating thoughts of life and sharing his discoveries with students. He wrote down very little of his philosophies, so most of what is known today about Socrates comes from his most famous student, Plato. Plato wrote of his teacher’s Socratic Method. The Socratic Method is a form of inquiring about an individual's ideals and belief system, which also questions the validity of those ethics. Socrates mastered his mind and belief system to such an extent that he could help others accomplish the same. While his witty judgement allowed him to master his mind, he was not so successful at mastering the world. Socrates’ belief system was one that did not approve the Athenian democracy of his time, and he made his opinions about society absolutely clear. The government of Athens was not fond his vocal disapproval and ultimately sentenced him to death for his criticism. His execution is depicted in the famous painting, Death of Socrates, as seen above. Socrates continued to display his mastery of mind until his last breath, preaching philosophies to onlookers as the poison slowly killed him. The last words he spoke were, “Crito, we owe a rooster to Asclepius. Please, don't forget to pay the debt", in reference to the God of healing, Asclepius. These words implied that death was the remedy for Socrates failure to master the world. His witty way of perceiving the world allowed him to master the mind, but fell short in allowing him to master the world, and he payed the ultimate price because of this failure. Clever Khan and sagacious Socrates were masters. They were not, however, masters of the same realms. Khan used his acumen on war to master half of the world. Through clever tactics, he lead his army to victory across nearly half of the known world. Socrates used his advanced perception on life to master the mind. He had the most complete, defined, and viable belief system of any man. Although, Socrates did not master the world outside the mind, displeasing others around him to the point of his execution. Both witty men are proof that gifted thinkers are masters, though they master one of two reams: the mind and the world.I like your contrast of the two great minds. Your citations look good. Just make sure to use the title Works Cited and list in alphabetical order. Works Cited
David, Jacques. TheDeath of Socrates. 1787. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Web. 10 November 2014.
Genghis Khan. The Field Museum. Web. 10 November 2014.
A Fit of Rhyme against Rhyme[4]Ben Jonson
"A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme" by Ben Jonson is loaded with patterns and irony. Firstly, the entire poem rhymes with the scheme AABCCBEE in lines such as "Not a work deserving bays, / Not a line deserving praise." This line like many others also features a second pattern: alliteration. Often lines paired together contain one or two repeated words. The third pattern is alliteration, the repetition of consonant sounds. Alliteration can be found with phrases such as "Fear of falling," "Wresting words," and "Spoiling senses." All these patterns are not only intentional, but are also clever. They are clever because of the irony they create. All the rhyming lines of the poem together denigrate rhyming poems. Just like Jonson argues in his poem, writing a rhyming poem that still conveys a message is difficult. Not only does he conquer rhyme, Jonson simultaneously conquers humor, cleverly crafting his entire poem as one big irony. Even the title is ironic, "A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme." In other words, the poem is appropriately rhyming in order declare rhyme inappropriate. The poem's irony makes it clever.
Actually explain WHY the rhyme/alliteration is clever. Don't tell me that it is--but why. Explain the wit of the title of the poem. You tell me it is witty--but don't explain the wit/irony.
Her Face[3]Arthur Gorges
“Her Face” by Arthur Gorges is an extremely clever and unique poem that is more like a collection of several poems. At first glance, its unusual verse styling appears to be a huge formatting error. Though after reading the poem, its true ingenuity is revealed. Patterns cover the poem. Firstly, each verse row describes a facial feature and every other verse row describes the same set of features. When reading down each verse column, each verse alternates in describes two facial features. Within each verse, lines end in alternating sounds following the pattern ABAB. Every line and verse of the poem has exactly 6 words and six syllables, and every other word is identical. Line two is a perfect example, chanting “so fair so sweet so sharp.” Not only does this line continue to follow the every other word pattern, but the words work together to describe both her and her face. Her face is “so fair”, her tongue is “so sweet”, and her wit is “so sharp”. Together the descriptions describe her as fair, sweet, and sharp. Patterns like this are all over the poem. A poem like this requires incredible intentionality in selecting every word, and requires immense witty cleverness to craft.
Much better job describing the poem here, McKay.
Both Jonson and Gorges are witty people, and therefore write witty poetry. However, the two poets use their wit for differing purposes. Jonson uses clever rhyme patterns to invoke irony and humor into his poem. "A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme" keeps readers entertained through its humorous irony. Gorges, on the other hand, uses his clever patterns to inscribe incredible detail into a few short words. Lines such as "to like to learn to love" use only six words to describe her eyes, her ears, her heart, and her as a whole. His cleverly thought out patterns create concise details. While the poets use witty patterns for differing purposes, both poets' patterns add to the quality of their poems.
Why do they use wit in their poems? What is the intention of the wit?
Wit of Villains vs Wit of Heroes
Contrary to usual action movies, the protagonists in The Italian Job are lawbreaking, organized criminals, led by John Bridger. The film starts off with John talking to his daughter after leaving his most recent prison sentence. During their conversation, it is indicated that John is notorious for his effectively clever crimes that are meticulously planned out and usually involve him skillfully cracking a safe with no technology. The scene immediately following their conversation demonstrates his clever perfection. His team wants to rob a safe on the third floor of a Venice building. They do so by bombing perfectly shaped holes in the two floors directly below the safe, causing it to fall into the water garage below the building. Next, two members of the team rocket out of the water garage by speedboat, carrying the stolen safe which had fallen into the back of their boat. This safe, however, is a decoy. John cleverly designed the plan so that the safe falls underwater in front of the boat where he is waiting in scuba gear to crack it. The plan works perfectly and the antagonists proceed to pursue the decoy safe in an intense high speed boat chase through the narrow canals of Venice. While John’s sharp wit is admirable, he uses his wit for not-so-admirable, selfish purposes. John is a perfect example of how even villainous criminals can be based on intelligent wit.
Make sure to write titles correctly.
Speed is a thriller action movie about an ingenious psychopath, Howard Payne, who places a bomb on the underside of a bus that has been triggered to explode if the bus travels slower than 50 miles per hour. Payne can also trigger the bus to explode if any passenger attempt to exit. Within minutes police are aware of the situation and after about an hour of suspenseful driving stunts, the bus manages to arrive at the airport where the police have it circle the runway at just over 50 mph. The entire nation is watching this bus circle, praying that it will not explode. The main protagonist Jack Traven has less than an hour to figure out how he can safely get all the passengers of the bus before it runs out of fuel. Finally, one discovery helps Traven tremendously. He realizes that not only is Payne watching the bus on the news, but he has a security camera watching the inside of the bus. Traven uses his quick wit and fabricates and ingenious plan. The police order all the news sources to turn off cameras and has one news van locate the signal of Payne’s bus camera. Once the signal is found, Traven tells the news van to record a minute and a half of activity inside the bus, then broadcast the recording on a loop so it appears nothing suspicious is happening. Immediately following the start of the loop, the police drive an airport bus parallel to the runaway bus and evacuate the passengers safely. The plan is executed flawlessly and all passengers escape without injury. Traven uses his intelligence and quick wit to save many lives in a high pressure situation. He is perfect example of how wit can be the basis for heroism.
Write film titles correctly.
Bridger and Traven both use cleverness to their advantage. John outwits his opponents with deceiving and unexpected tactics in his robberies, allowing them to be notoriously successful. Traven outwits clever criminals with ingeniousness of his own, foiling the villains' plot and saving lives. These two witty men, however, have polar motives. Bridger has selfish motives, using cleverness to cheat his way through life, benefiting off stealing what does not belong to him, like a villian. Traven, on the other hand, uses his cleverness to outsmart villains and save lives, like a hero. Together they demonstrate how wit can be the basis of both evil and virtue.
Wit of Mastering the Mind vs Wit of Mastering the World
Genghis Khan is the most successful military commander in history. His Mongol forces conquered more land than any other army, thereby making him emperor of the largest empire ever. Khan used brilliant tactics for his time to conquer East Europe, Asia, and the Middle East one city at a time. Before a Mongol legion even began to attack a city, spies spent months gathering insight on supply routes, roads, defences, and strategic positions. This allowed warriors to invade cities with knowledge of the terrain equal to the defenders. Mongolia's enemies also had to witness the brutal effectiveness of Khan’s sieges. His forces would encircle a city cutting off its supply routes, thereby starving the defenders into submission. On especially resilient cities, Khan would unleash the surging power of water, breaking a dam of a nearby river to flood a city. His cleverness could be witnessed off the battlefield as well. In addition to rapid communication networks, Khan’s Mongols would light extra campfires around the perimeter of their encampments. These extra fires made their legion appear much larger than it actually was, discouraging enemy night raids and counter-offensives. Khan is considered to be one of the greatest military commanders of all time. He mastered the world around him through his sharp wit.
I like this examples. It's well explained and I like the attached graphic.
Socrates is one of the world’s most renowned philosophers. Born in 469 BC Athens, he spent his days contemplating thoughts of life and sharing his discoveries with students. He wrote down very little of his philosophies, so most of what is known today about Socrates comes from his most famous student, Plato. Plato wrote of his teacher’s Socratic Method. The Socratic Method is a form of inquiring about an individual's ideals and belief system, which also questions the validity of those ethics. Socrates mastered his mind and belief system to such an extent that he could help others accomplish the same. While his witty judgement allowed him to master his mind, he was not so successful at mastering the world. Socrates’ belief system was one that did not approve the Athenian democracy of his time, and he made his opinions about society absolutely clear. The government of Athens was not fond his vocal disapproval and ultimately sentenced him to death for his criticism. His execution is depicted in the famous painting, Death of Socrates, as seen above. Socrates continued to display his mastery of mind until his last breath, preaching philosophies to onlookers as the poison slowly killed him. The last words he spoke were, “Crito, we owe a rooster to Asclepius. Please, don't forget to pay the debt", in reference to the God of healing, Asclepius. These words implied that death was the remedy for Socrates failure to master the world. His witty way of perceiving the world allowed him to master the mind, but fell short in allowing him to master the world, and he payed the ultimate price because of this failure.
Clever Khan and sagacious Socrates were masters. They were not, however, masters of the same realms. Khan used his acumen on war to master half of the world. Through clever tactics, he lead his army to victory across nearly half of the known world. Socrates used his advanced perception on life to master the mind. He had the most complete, defined, and viable belief system of any man. Although, Socrates did not master the world outside the mind, displeasing others around him to the point of his execution. Both witty men are proof that gifted thinkers are masters, though they master one of two reams: the mind and the world.I like your contrast of the two great minds.
Your citations look good. Just make sure to use the title Works Cited and list in alphabetical order.
Works Cited